headed through rush hour traffic trying to get back to the capitol for a vigil we were having for the newtown, connecticut, atrocity, i kept remembering the words, "even though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil for you are with e me," and i found myself asking in the car how was it that he was able to walk so confidently through the valley of the shadows of death. i began to speculate. i naught perhaps he could -- thought perhaps he could do it because he had been in that valley before. i had heard the story of the silver dollar that saved his li life. the staff was shocked and he had two silver dollars in his pocket. he had been in the valley of the shadows before, walking through, not scurrying, not jogging, not running, with a iguana numberity of templerment he could walk through. but i said there has to be more than that. i thought perhaps he was able to walk so confidently into the valley of the shadows because he knew that there was light in that valley. you can't have shadows without light. i remembered his prayer breakfast speech only a few weeks ago